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Dissecting the malicious arsenal of the Makop ransomware gang

Security Affairs

Their operations are based on the human operator ransomware practice where most of the intrusion is handled by hands-on keyboard criminals, even in the encryption stage. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

Security Affairs

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

It was not until May 2011 that the next major version of BackTrack got released, which also happens to be the last, BackTrack 5. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Being a system administrator, a patch could contain a security update to stop a vulnerability.

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